Hacker News top 30 - 2026-08-17
- Firefox for iOS now has a native adblocker support.mozilla.org - 253 comments 626 points
- Claude: System Prompts platform.claude.com - 248 comments 619 points
- A third world engineer responds to “RISC-V: They should have known better” rvembedded.com - 235 comments 460 points
- Tell HN: Cloudflare silently injects its analytics when you switch nameservers news.ycombinator.com - 107 comments 412 points
- Research papers using “kidney disappointment” instead of “kidney failure” scholar.google.com - 134 comments 384 points
- Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things simonwillison.net - 127 comments 311 points
- Models Are Getting Dumber on Purpose w4g1.dev - 169 comments 303 points
- Stripe will reportedly acquire OpenRouter for $7B+ techcrunch.com - 196 comments 291 points
- The AI Credit Resale Economy vectoral.com - 113 comments 266 points
- What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade? littlelearner-ll.github.io - 206 comments 239 points
- The federal keyword lists that canceled billions in research funding www.highereddive.com - 87 comments 201 points
- The weekend is 100 years old www.theguardian.com - 135 comments 191 points
- Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee www.reuters.com - 86 comments 185 points
- St Lucie Nuclear Reactor Unit 1 manually shutdown, 3 control rods drop into core www.wptv.com - 135 comments 183 points
- Anthropic’s ‘Watermark’ Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing daringfireball.net - 174 comments 175 points
- The Life and Death of Direct File - pdf www.ischool.berkeley.edu - 77 comments 169 points
- NIH is ending a key grant for budding clinical researchers www.science.org - 74 comments 149 points
- Protobuf has LSP support. You’re welcome buf.build - 92 comments 140 points
- A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life www.rand.org - 86 comments 122 points
- ICE Shot a Journalist and Threw Him in Detention. He’s Approaching 300 Days theintercept.com - 53 comments 121 points
- Banned Words List pen.org - 50 comments 114 points
- Young People Hate AI CEOs So Passionately That It’s Almost Hard to Believe futurism.com - 112 comments 108 points
- A True Telnet BBS on a Casio Calculator ei3lh.eu - 11 comments 103 points
- Ask HN: Do you know of any company that went back to hand-written code? news.ycombinator.com - 118 comments 99 points
- The Case Against Formal Verification, 50 Years Later ivan-gavran.github.io - 100 comments 88 points
- Reticulum – Decentralized Mesh Network reticulum.network - 22 comments 88 points
- MathCode, Mathematical Coding Agent math-ai-org.github.io - 26 comments 84 points
- AI Coding Without the Vibes peterbloem.nl - 49 comments 82 points
- GPS and the Lost Art of Getting Lost www.newyorker.com - 63 comments 77 points
- US oil reserves are so low, the caverns holding them could be damaged www.independent.co.uk - 62 comments 74 points
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